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Monday, March 31, 2014

British Royal Air Force retired its two Panavia Tornado GR4 fighter bomber squadrons, Number 12 (Bomber) Squadron and 617 Squadron (the Dambusters) operating from RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland on 28 March.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

The international group working to refine the Inmarsat data, together with radar data and aircraft performance assumptions have further refined existing data and has come up with new technical information on aircraft performance to narrow the search area.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Missile manufacturer MBDA has been awarded a Demonstration and Manufacture contract by French and British Defence Ministries for an new advanced anti-ship missile- the FASGW(H)/ANL (Future Anti Surface Guided Weapon (Heavy)/ Anti Navire Léger)on 26th March 2014.

Airbus Helicopters and Chinese’s Avicopter has signed a joint agreement for the production of 1000 EC175/Z-15 helicopters, in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace in Paris.

Cirrus Aircrafts successfully completed the first flight of its Vision SF50 personal jet, C-Zero’ (C0). The C0 certification aircraft underwent rigorous ground tests before taking off from the Duluth International Airport at approximately 5PM CDT on Monday, March 24th, 2014.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Assembly of Flap Track Beams for the Airbus Single Aisle A320 at Dynamatic-Oldland Aerospace™, Bangalore

Bangalore based Dynamatic Technologies Limited has received an Aero Structures Contract from Airbus for the supply of Flap Track Beams for the Airbus A330 widebody aircraft, which makes it the first company in the Indian Private sector to become a Global Tier One supplier to Airbus.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

On 13 March, British satellite company Inmarsat indicated that routine automatic communications between one of its satellites and the Flight MH370 could be used to determine several possible flight paths.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Interim investigation report by British Military Aviation Authority (MAA) has found the Royal Air Force Voyager ZZ333 aircraft's sudden mid air nose pitch down incident on 9 Feb was caused due to human factor and not due to technical issues with the aircraft.

MBDA has successfully completed trials of its Dual Mode Brimstone air to ground missile from MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), scoring nine direct hits against a range of targets including very high speed and manoeuvring vehicles.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a cooperation agreement with Snecma to use Snecma’s PPS®5000 electric propulsion engine in Airbus’s Eurostar telecommunication satellites, for positioning manoeuvres.

Thales Alenia Space has completed development of the European Space Agency’s atmospheric reentry demonstrator- the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle(IXV), and is now completing integration at it's clean rooms in Turin, Italy.

US Navy and Northrop Grumman completed the intial flight test phase of Northrop MQ-4C Triton UAS at it's Palmdale, California, facility on March 13, bringing the unmanned air system closer to induction into fleet in 2017.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

India has restarted its search efforts for the missing Malaysian Airlines MH 370 with additional naval and air assets being deployed for searching the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea following fresh areas being designated by Malaysia.

Australia has released images of two objects, possibly debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, spotted via satellite imagery of the Indian Ocean. The sitting was disclosed by Australiian prime minister Tony Abbot in parliament.

Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) has awarded contracts for the Phase I development of the Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane with high speed and improved hover efficiency to Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Boeing, Karem Aircraft and Sikorsky.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Thales has won a contract to supply U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with an initial five Instrument Landing Systems model 420 (ILS420s) for deployment throughout the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) as a part of 5-year contract.

Airbus has started the final assembly of the first A320neo airliner at its Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse (France). The forward and aft fuselage sections where joined, which recently arrived from St. Nazaire in France and Hamburg in Germany respectively.

The newly launched Saudi Arabian national carrier, SaudiGulf Airline, wholly owned by Abdul Hadi Al Qahtani Group has signed a firm contract with Airbus for four Airbus A320ceo jets, to be delivered early 2015.

Friday, March 14, 2014

After almost a week with no clues about the whereabouts of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, India has pressed its aerial and naval assets for searching westward towards Andaman Sea, after receiving help requests from Malaysia.

The fourth edition of India's largest civil aviation exhibition India Aviation 2014 was inaugurated today, by Civil Aviation Minister, Shri Ajit Singh at the Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad. This year's theme of the civil aviation exhibition will be ‘Enhancing Air Connectivity'.

The first F-35 Lightning II fighter arrived at Luke Air Force Base on March 10, to be operated by the 56th Fighter Wing. The aircraft was flown in directly from the Lockheed Martin's factory at Fort Worth, Texas.